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You know that feeling you get after a few days in the country or the bush,like your body and mind are completely refreshed? It turns out that feeling is not just in our heads. There's growing evidence that nature is good for us. So how do we get more of it? This is part of our series on the power of nature. ...

Anxiety is an essential human emotionit kicks in to protect us from threatsbut sometimes those threats are only perceived. When worries start to become overwhelming, approximately 25 per cent of us experience clinical anxiety. But it is highly treatable. A ten-year-old girl and a 30-year-old ...

Sigmund Freud had mixed feelings about philosophy he thought that philosophers and people experiencing psychosis had a lot in common. So how has contemporary philosophy come to owe such a huge debt to the father of psychoanalysis? Heidegger, Ricoeur, Derrida, Zizek all employ a hermeneutics of ...

At 43, Laura Waters had a stable corporate career, a long-term relationship and a solid life plan. Then she traded it all in and embarked on one of the world's hardest hikes. She says it changed her life. Guest: Laura Waters, author of Bewildered: Leaving everything behind for 3000km in the wilds of ...

We know that being in the great outdoors feels good, but there is growing evidence that it may also make you healthier. Guests: Zoe Myers, Lecturer at the Australian Urban Design Research Centre at the University of Western Australia and author of Wildness and Wellbeing: Nature, Neuroscience and ...